israel lobby

Photo of an Israeli sniper during the 40 day siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethleham in 2002
 

Of all the lame-brained, lumpen-brained, hare-brained schemes emanating from Aipac’s lobby shop, this is one of the truly lamest.

 

  What matters is that the US, while it is a declining world power, is still militarily powerful, dangerous and destructive, even as its empire building is weakening and its forces are in retreat.  As Mahatma Gandhi once stated about the declining British Empire, ‘It’s the aging tiger that becomes the man eater’.

James Petras

Introduction

Image: Senator Tom Cotton biggest campaign contributions came from far outside his home state of Arkansas. That doesn’t include the nearly one-million-dollar contribution in supportive political advertising made by Bill Kristol’s Emergency Committee for Israel in the closing days of Cotton’s Senate campaign. (Courtesy LobeLog foreign policy)

  Image: Students celebrate after UC Davis’ student government passed a divestment resolution Thursday night in a landslide vote. (Courtesy The Electronic Intifada)

Just when one believes Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner couldn’t possibly go any lower he proves all of his critics wrong by stooping so low his actions may bring charges of treason. 

  In western countries, under the hard influence of America, a country in turn under the hard influence of the world’s best organized and financed lobby, the Israel Lobby, we have come to regard Israel’s behavior as normal, but it is, of course, not normal, not in any detail. What is normal about holding several million people prisoner for half a century?

 

 
 John Chuckman

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu's Speech to Congress, May 24, 2011 (Photo: Avi Ochayon/GPO)  (Image courtesy Mondoweiss)

 Dr. Marcelo Svirsky, an Israeli/Australian lecturer from UOW walked from Sydney to Parliament House in Canberra to present a petition for Boycott Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) demanding the government exclude relations with Israel in line with BDS until it abides by international laws.